Gautam Dhameja’s Blog

A few days ago, I was reading somewhere that Andrej Karpathy, back in the day, was coding ML libraries from scratch just to understand how they work.

We have all been through this.

Eight years in crypto have taught me one thing above all: if you get the incentives wrong, everything downstream breaks.

Enterprise AI has a productivity story that is being advertised quite a bit, but it also has a cost story.

TL;DR Link to heading Software engineering is not dead.

A few days ago, an AI coding agent deleted an entire production database and all its backups in 9 seconds.

What are the chances that you will get the same output from an LLM on the same query across several runs?

I was building an AI agent for a professional services use case for a customer, and the natural instinct was to add memory so that the agent could remember previous interactions, build context over time, and learn from the past queries and responses.

For the last few months, I have been looking into the actual usage of AI in software engineering and, most importantly, in enterprise setups.

AI tools evolved from auto-complete in 2021 to chat in the editor in 2023 and full agentic coding in 2025, but the vast majority of developers are still stuck in phase one.

Traditional distributed systems and AI agents have a lot in common, primarily from the architecture perspective.

I wrote a blog post using AI a few days ago.

Looking at my recent posts on LinkedIn, my friends asked me, “Am I pivoting to AI?”.

Stablecoins processed $33 trillion in 2025.

Table of Contents Link to heading What is Finality?

Photo by Markus Spiske Recently, I was reading about intents and transactions in blockchains.

Trust.

This post is about setting some context before you get started with Substrate.

Image Source: Unsplash The Substrate framework provides modular components for building highly customizable and extensible blockchains and blockchain-based solutions.

Image Credits: Pete Linforth What is being decentralized?

Substrate logo — © Parity Technologies Parity Substrate is a blockchain development framework with many cool features like upgradable blockchains, modular architecture, customizable block execution logic, and hot-swappable consensus.

Blockchain deployment in enterprise setups is much more than just the blockchain network itself.

When I started working in the blockchain space, back in mid-2017, I was pretty new to the concepts and the ecosystem.

When it comes to software development in general, we have evolved a lot in terms of processes.

Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash Ever since blockchain technology became hyped, there has been a constant debate on the performance & scalability of decentralized systems.

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash I switched to Medium in 2015 because of one simple reason - the community aspect of it.

This post is a compilation of all my tech talks from 2018.

looking back :) Earlier today, while going through my twitter feed, I came across several “year in review” articles.

I have recently migrated my (this) blog out of Medium because of several reasons.

The ICO-based projects of today are generally proposed, driven and built by a group of people who come up with the idea and the corresponding token utility for the project.

Around a year ago (September 2017), Mike Goldin came up with the idea of Token Curated Registries (TCRs) based on public permissionless (blockchain) networks.

Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Everything that lives, has three stages in its lifespan — Birth, Death and the time between the two.

Prologue: Read this post with a pinch of salt and make sure to read the following note.

Music Tech Fest Labs Helsinki 2017 recap This YouTube video loads after non-essential cookies are accepted.

Photo by: Dan Stark As part of the Music Tech Fest #MTFLabs event (25–28 November, 2017), I created a simple mashup program using C# and the naudio library.

There are a lot of great articles about getting started with React-Redux.

Photo by Harpal Singh A few years ago, I was a part of a project in which we were tasked with making a few cross platform mobile apps using Xamarin.

Image Credits: Max Pixel When I first read about “Blockchain”, back in 2015, I could not understand most of it.

[Update] The information on this post might be outdated because of updates and fixes released after I wrote it.

Image Source: https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/ We built a cloud-native app.

Image source: https://whycantpeoplejustthink.wordpress.com/ I have a weird habit — I am rarely at my work desk when I have a programming task at hand.

Image Source: Pixabay Many a times we come across situations when we need to execute long running tasks for APIs exposed by our backend services.

Image Source: Pixabay Note: This post assumes that the reader knows Arduino and C++ programming basics.

Lately, I have been observing and trying to understand the product manager role and, in the process, I studied that famous Venn diagram showing an overlap of business, technology and user experience; came across the notion of CEO of the product; read a few

First of all, let’s try to define the internet of things.

Image Source: Pixabay A few decades ago, when “digital” computer programming was in its initial days, programs were written using simple text editors and then these text files were given to the compiler as an input which then emitted an executable.

Bring your own device or BYOD is one of the cool buzz words in the IT industry today.

Photo by: Jeremy Perkins Recently, I came across the Saga pattern when I stumbled upon this video from last year’s Goto conference.

Internet of Things is obviously one of the most talked about topics in the tech industry today.

Image by Pettycon on Pixabay “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” - Phil Karlton I first came across this quote about a decade ago, while I was still in college.